CVE-2024-9522 Information

Description

The WP Users Masquerade plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to and including 2.0.0. This is due to incorrect authentication and capability checking in the ‘ajax_masq_login’ function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level permissions and above to log in as any existing user on the site such as an administrator.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4a4f0909-76f6-4d27-87b1-f6cd5f5cbbb7?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-users-masquerade/trunk/masquerade.php?rev=1703860#L162

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8